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Travels in Eastern & Southern Turkey 1995Travels in Eastern & Southern Turkey 1995 A photographic journey through Eastern and Southern Turkey in 1995, from the magnificent Ishak Pasa Sarayi and the -
Troy: The Most Anticipated, Most Disappointing Site on the Tour?Ask our guests which site on the Treasures of Western Turkey tour they are most looking forward to, and the answer, more often than not, -
Palermo: The Florios, the Belle Époque and a Fortune That VanishedWe’ve mentioned the Florio family twice now without quite stopping to tell their story: the golden age behind the wine and tuna trades in our -
Palermo: The War, the Mafia and the Sack of a CityThe Florios’ own golden age, the opera houses and new money of Palermo’s turn-of-the-century boom, is a story for its own post. For now, we -
Palermo: The British, the Bourbons and Garibaldi’s ThousandWe ended our last post on a city turned inward: its Muslim population expelled under Frederick II, its Jewish population expelled under Spain, and its -
Palermo: The Massacre, the Miracle and the InquisitionFrederick II died in 1250, and with him died Sicily’s last homegrown dynasty. His son Conradin held the throne only briefly before the Pope handed